Sport 43: 2015
talk about Knocknagree
talk about Knocknagree
in Knocknagree the grocer’s son
asks if I’m spoken for
and at Mass the Priest
orders my aunt to stop speaking
the other half of my family
keep their silence in the churchyard
with men who never
tied their own shoe-laces
or lifted kettles off hobs
quiet men who knew my father
and hid him south of the mountain
like my uncle
men all mahogany
and Waterford glass
men who blessed themselves
with driving gloves
when they passed men
who lived in houses
with curtains as thin as wrists